Quotes
Terry McCrann
In very simple terms, if wind farms are the answer, the question must be: how can we waste the most money in an utterly useless exercise?
The Recorder Editorial Staff
As new information surfaces, and the lack of supporting information becomes increasingly clear, this economically flawed industry is being exposed for the exploitive operation it is — one that makes a whole lot of money by robbing taxpayers in the form of public subsidizing of its construction, and then selling the power back to consumers at premium prices.
Tom Horton
It would take thousands of these clean-energy, landscape-marring
machines [wind turbines] to generate only a slice of the region's power needs. Consider a recent Department of Energy Study. It shows that nationwide, moving to 10 percent renewable energy would still see coal burning increase substantially because of rapidly growing electrical demand.
Tom Lynch
These are not farms, one doesn’t farm wind anymore than one farms water in a hydroelectric dam or farms neutrons in an atomic plant.
Tom Tanton
Wind power is at least twice as expensive as power from conventional sources and it's less than half as valuable because it's not always available when you need it."
Tom Vanesky
The first glimpse of the turbines [Weymart Wind Farm] from state Route 6 presents a surreal image like something from a Road Warrior movie.